The best the anti-vaccine movement has to offer

If you want your brain to get achingly confused, as it tries to decide between grinding your teeth and tapping your toes, then you need to see this. Melodically, it might not actually suck as much as I’d like to be able to say it does. But you’d honestly be hard-pressed to make the anti-vaxxers’ [...]

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Keep your religion out of my freedoms

Well, this is just tragic. So the “Ground Zero” “Mosque” is being loudly opposed by many, who are against the idea of allowing Muslims to build a place of worship sort of near to where some extremists did something terrible nine years ago. But a lot of the time, their arguments are focused on the [...]

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God(less) will smite you down

Another thousand words of novel means another day of moderate neglect for the blog. Sorry, everyone. I’ll try not to be quite this totally awesome for too long. Anyway. The Guardian’s usually rather good at reporting competently on science-based news, and not getting carried away with a right-wing agenda or deranged tabloid fear-mongering. Their articles [...]

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Fight the Power

Just a quick link today to a recent confirmation that Joe Power is still an unpleasant, bitter, cruel, spiteful, nasty little man. Not that we needed any further reminders. Derren Brown has it covered, in particular. But still. He is quite revolting. Even for a fucking stage psychic who pretends to talk to people’s dead [...]

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Poetry Corner

There is no good reason for presenting my thoughts like this. But it’s happening. It goes without saying that I’m no Digital Cuttlefish. That should be clear from the start. *ahem* The blog known as Pharyngula Is really rather singular – From the biology lectures, to the comely Trophy Wife – But its chief controller, [...]

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You, madam, are no Chris Rock

I didn’t know who Dr. Laura was until she got fired. The idea of a friendly-sounding general advice guru who wants to be called “Doctor Firstname” is something of a cliché, but I guess it’s mostly an American thing, and I’m not usually aware of the specific examples who are well known over there. Dr [...]

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Damned lies

I have no idea what to think about polls like this. 41% of Americans questioned believe that the second coming of Jesus “probably/definitely will happen” in the next forty years. Is that more or less than I should have expected? The proportion goes up among evangelicals, predictably enough, and is relatively low among “mainline” white [...]

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What she said

I haven’t weighed in at length on the “Ground Zero Mosque” debate yet. You’ve heard other people sum it up well already, but N.K. Jemisin is who I’m going to quote, in part, from John Scalzi’s blog: And so much of the rhetoric on this issue ignores the basic facts: that the building’s nowhere near [...]

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Bleachgate III: Return Of The Final Quickening Revolution On Earth Of The Sith

Okay, first things first: Miracle Mineral Solution is still bogus, useless, unproven, dangerous, and complete bullshit. The people making money off this misleading garbage are among the worst orders of scumbags. Even if the stuff itself were harmless, telling people to stop taking their prescribed HIV medication is unforgivably irresponsible, and Jim Humble is a [...]

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Potentially fatal disease, therefore Jesus

Newsflash: People still don’t know what atheism is but feel compelled to bang on about it anyway. I’ll only mention the part of this tedious drivel that caught the eye of PZ Myers in particular, because I don’t think I’ve even mentioned Christopher Hitchens’s ongoing battle with cancer on this blog yet. He’s talked openly [...]

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